Word: surely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the fight is over, losers settle their debts by throwing money rolled up into little wads across the cockpit to those who won. There are no guards around to make sure people pay up. Instead, fear of reprisals makes the system work...
However that sounded, Gorbachev was by no means washing his hands of Najib. Said a Pentagon analyst: "It is somewhat naive to think that the Soviets will withdraw and leave a Communist regime to collapse." Sure enough, Moscow last week pressed Islamabad to drop its objection to dealing with Najib. To drive home that point, Yuli Vorontsov, First Deputy Foreign Minister, visited Islamabad to deliver a vague threat. Said he: "Any delays in the signing of the accords from now on will not be of the Soviet Union's making. We don't know who will take that responsibility." Continued...
...works of art. Since ordinary taxpayers are not allowed into the intelligence agency's headquarters, none of them will ever see the CIA art. The amount of money involved is similarly secret, because that would reveal the extent of the construction plans. But the CIA wants to make sure that no bad choices are made. So it has asked the General Services Administration to select...
Williams said the BSU "called for an independent investigation to make sure that it was an objective investigation...
Henry Wingo, Tom's tight-lipped, hardworking father, made sure the offense would not be repeated. After forcing his son to roast and eat the bird's flesh, Henry continued the "expiation of sin," by having his son jailed and then making him wear a headdress of the eagle's feathers to school, "until it began to disintegrate feather by feather. Those feathers trailed me in the hallways of the school as though I were a molting, discredited angel." It is an image which remains with Tom--always threatening to define...